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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section IV – Chapter I
Chapter I
Containing Ptolemy’s method in judging eclipses and how to know the regions to
which the effects belong
After he had in the preceding chapters declared the conditions and constitutions
of several nations of the world, and the occasion thereof from the nature of the
signs and planets, he comes in the 4 th chapter to a more facile way of
appropriating them into several signs of the zodiac, the better to predict the
most eminent accidents and casualties in all nations, kingdoms and regions, etc.
[Four things to be considered in judging of eclipses]
Wherefore herein, there will be four things most worthy our consideration.
� The first, the places or regions, countries, kingdoms or cities where the
effects of any eclipse will be manifest
� The second, the time when the effects shall begin and how long continue
� The third, the kinds of events
� The fourth, the quality of the events, whether good or evil
[First]
Touching the first, you have no more to do but thus; see what place of the
zodiac your eclipse falls in, whether it is of the Sun or Moon, and what cities,
countries, kingdoms or regions are subject to the sign wherein the eclipse is,
and such cities that had the sign wherein the defect is; in the horoscope or first
house at the time of its first structure, or the place then of the Sun or Moon; and
the places subject to the signs in opposition and square thereunto you may say
assuredly taste of its effects; as also such regions wherein the eclipse shall be
visible. The kingdoms, cities and places subject to every sign of the zodiac you
have in the second book. 1
1 A table of the regions ruled by each sign as given by Ramesey is in Appendix VI.
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